Hearing what Stanley had to say, Sharon felt completely relaxed.
Since he said so, there was nothing for her to worry about.
She could finally let down her hair, and she stopped feeling as tense as before. Her rehabilitation matter would be handed over to Stanley.
After lunch, the sun was bright, and there was a beach not far from their residence. And so, Stanley pushed her wheelchair towards the beach, letting her feet step on the sand. She gritted her teeth as she attempted to walk.
She had only taken a few steps when cold sweat broke out on her forehead. Stanley could not bear to see her suffer, so he carried her back to her room to rest.
Sharon struggled in protest for a moment, "I can't give up halfway."
"We can try again tomorrow."
"But..."
"There's no 'but'! Listen to me!" Seeing him like this made her feel even worse than the pain she felt from the injury.
"Stanley, wait for a while..." Sharon patted his arm.
Stanley frowned and looked at her in his arms. "Good girl, don't force yourself. If you can't, then you can't. There's no need to push yourself."
With him by her side, there was no need for her to persevere. Even if it might be inconvenient for her to move around for the rest of her life, he would carry her for the rest of his life.
"I'm not pushing myself. Wheelchair! I'm talking about the wheelchair!" Sharon grabbed onto his neck with her arms. "What if someone took it away? Do you want Ryan to buy another wheelchair then?"
Stanley squatted down.
The wheelchair?
To be honest, he had really forgotten about it.
Sharon couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw the expression on his face when he finally came back to his senses. In the end, when he turned around with a dark face, she simply couldn't hold back her laughter and fell directly into his arms.
Ryan had just returned from outside. Upon seeing Sharon in her wheelchair laughing so hard that she was clutching her stomach, he raised an eyebrow. "What's so funny?"
"Ehem..." Sharon didn't want to embarrass Stanley and so she stopped laughing while changing the topic. "Ryan, where did you go?"
"I thought since we will be stuck here for the next few days, I went out to buy some food."
Sharon sighed. "Ryan, you are far too thoughtful. In the future, anyone who becomes your wife will be the luckiest woman."
Smiling, Ryan shook his head and brought the food into the kitchen.
Stanley pushed Sharon back to his bedroom.
Sharon insisted on getting herself back to bed from the wheelchair. Stanley could only nod his head in agreement, while he nervously looked on.
It was only when Sharon had sat down safely on the bed that he let out a sigh of relief.
Sharon rolled to the other side of the bed, and while lying on her side, she looked up at Stanley's tall figure. She couldn't help but say, "I now feel that you're very much like me."
"Like you? What do you mean?"
"After I gave birth to Seamus and Sadie, I was just as nervous as you were just now. No matter what they were doing, I couldn't prevent myself from being nervous. I was afraid that they would bump into something. Sometimes, I was so worried that I wished that I could walk and run for them, so they wouldn't have to fall."
This left Stanley speechless.
From what was said, it seemed that Sharon was indeed calling him a nag!
His huge body pressed down on her, shrouding her beneath him. Sharon pushed against his chest with both hands. His breath was filled with the faint scent of smoke, as well as the fresh scent from when they had returned from the beach. They were entangled together.
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